From FundselectorAsia: ... Lombard Odier believes that hedge funds also belong in a well-diversified strategic asset allocation, because they should outperform cash - but manager selection is key given wide dispersion between different funds' performance. More:...

Japan's GPIF posts $4.5bn investment loss in Q2 From Reuters: Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) reported on Thursday its first negative return in three quarters with an investment loss of 683.2 billion yen ($4.54 billion) in July-September, as a policy tweak by the central bank hit the government bond market. The world's largest...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: A fresh new multi-strategy event-driven fund is being launched this month by an emerging manager in Jersey called Corbiere Capital Management. However, the co-founders - an...

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Mr Lawrence Wong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, and Chairman of MAS, clarified in a written reply how Singapore is using artificial intelligence at the moment. The Prime Minister was asked to specifically clarify,...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Benjamin Upward and Branon Fluegel, co-founders of Synchronicity Futures, LLC, a CTA based in Michigan, have decided to wind up the firm. "We have put our heart and soul into managing Synchronicity for over seven ...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, declared that his firm would be shorting 30-year Treasuries using options, in light of the low long-term rates - which might lead to a persistent 3% inflation -, Ts being overbought, and other events such as Japan's YCC and the recent Fitch downgrade. His firm is now short in size o...

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The new hedge funds pursuing traditional investment strategies charged an average management fee of 1.9%, while the funds pursuing bespoke investment strategies charged an average management fee of .925%, said a study. The first-ever Seward & Kissel Established Manager Hedge Fund Study of new hedge funds launched within established managers reveal...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Space is a timely topic for all leaders, global management consultant McKinsey asserts in a March report. Today, the space economy is valued at nearly half a trillion dollars and is growing at about 9% annually. Ma...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: For investors who are looking to call on funds of hedge funds' power to provide downside protection, here is one that specialises in global liquid arbitrage strategies and that does just that. FoHF manager AlphaBee Asset Management, through its two sub-funds, invests in a var...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: The purpose of carbon markets is to lower pollution by reducing the annual supply of allowances every year through 2030 - and so they are becoming an indispensable tool in the climate fight. There are several funds that invest exclusively in c...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: The renewable energy capacity in the Nordic countries has been growing steadily during the past ten years, and those countries have only been minimally affected by the shift in Russian gas supply. They can be a destination, as well as serve as ...

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Carmel Partners, an institutional investment manager, has completed capital-raising for its latest investment vehicle, Carmel Partners Investment Fund 8, through which it has raised $1.58 billion, topping its $1.5 billion target. At $1.58 billion, Fund 8 is Carmel's largest fund to date, said a press release from the specialists in real estate...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: The longevity biotech market is coming to the fore as we are living longer, but not necessarily more healthily. According to AgingBiotech.info, a non-profit site, interfering with ageing by slowing it and even reversing it is now, based on scientific consensus, possible. Furthermore, it is an imperative cause as it will save lives and reduce suffering. ...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Energy transition - a wide term that conveys the adoption of solar panels, wind turbines, and the gradual closing of oil wells and coal pits - is a journey that is not without its bumps and blocks and bottlenecks. Generating power from renewables is only a part of the energy transition journey. The introduction of electric transportation infrastructure ...

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Headstart Advisers' Headstart Fund of Funds 2022 posted its third positive, consecutive double-digit annual return. According to a press release from the investment advisor to the Headstart family of hedge funds, now in its 23rd year, the Fund's outperformance contrasted the negative global equity and bond markets and also the less nega...

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Financial crimes advisory firm K2 Integrity Holdings Inc. has created and launched a new ESG certification. The certification is not another ESG score rating, but rather a due diligence-based certification designed to ensure that firms are actually following through on their ESG strategies. K2 is led by co-Chief Executives Jeremy Kroll and Andr...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Conquest Capital Partners has a revival tale to tell. Founded in 1999 in New York City by Marc Malek, a well-known personality in the quantitative space, it ran several CTAs including the flagship fund Conquest QM for 20 years. Then, one of its main investors, a large Ivy League University...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Veteran investor Soon Hock Chua founded Asia Genesis Asset Management Pte Ltd in Singapore in 1999 and ran the Japan Macro Fund (JMF), an Asia-focused global macro hedge fund which returned 18.7% net annually with low downside volatility from 2000 till 2009. He then closed the US$800m fund and too...

B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Insch Kintore, a UK-based systematic fund manager that specialises in gold trading, is launching today a new sub-fund which will be distributed by Oneworld, a Cyprus-based AIFM. The new sub-fund will be powered by the multi-award-winning Insch Kintore XAU/FX strategy. The investment objective of this strategy is to achieve capital growth in both favoura...